Gilbert, et al,
I had a modern lute moment last week. I'm participating in a jazz
performance workshop and I realized that I had forgotten the cord (not the
chords - I always forget those) to my electric guitar when I got to the last
meeting. Luckily, I had Monteverdi rehearsal earlier in the day, so my theorbo
was with me. I could either go home or start jamming on jazz theorbo.
I had to put some mental effort into actually getting the notes in a tuning
I'm not used to using for jazz, but I never thought to myself "Wait, Chris,
this is a _theorbo_. It was never designed for this type of music. You really
shouldn't be doing this." I was just another musician doing the best he
could. It was only at the break when the pro jazzers in the back up combo came
up to me and told me how cool it sounded that it occurred to me that there was
something out of the ordinary.
During the rest of the session, I began to worry that some of the other
lute students or Paul O'Dette himself might walk by the rehearsal room and see
me through the window. I got very self-conscious and held back a lot. Why, I
wonder? Why would I presume that they would think I was doing something
inappropriate or care if they did?
Chris
Christopher Wilke
Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer
www.christopherwilke.com
--- On Thu, 5/5/11, Gilbert Isbin <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Gilbert Isbin <[email protected]>
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: New blog post
> To: "Ron Andrico" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011, 9:21 AM
> Why should a modern voicing sound
> ugly on a lute. Play Dm11 for instance. Not bad. Gm13/D .
> What's wrong with it ? Sounds very beautiful to me.
>
> Why shouldn't it be possible to integrate lute techniques
> in modern lute compositions? Try C9sus4 followed by a bass
> line, or a single note run on the top voice, or in the
> middle voice. Sounds pretty ok to me.
>
> I think people from the 16th century would have a good
> laugh about this discussion. It was a time in which so many
> creative things happened. New compositional techniques, new
> lute techniques, new instruments, ..
>
> Gilbert.
>
>
>
> http://users.telenet.be/gilbert.isbin/contents.html
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Andrico" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 2:06 PM
> Subject: [LUTE] New blog post
>
>
> > To All:
> > We have a new blog post raising a few
> questions about modern music on
> > the lute - not against the idea, by
> the way.
> > [1]http://mignarda.wordpress.com
> > Ron & Donna
> > --
> >
> > References
> >
> > 1. http://mignarda.wordpress.com/
> >
> >
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